Ask HN: What do you use for interactive visualization of large data sets?
Any data scientists here that communicate their results or data sets through interactive plots? I was wondering what your favorite tool or package would be for this task.
Working mainly in python, I often find myself using plotly or bokeh but find both packages' syntax clunky and unintuitive. Moreover, none of these scale well to large data sets - most of these solutions can not handle a simple 2d scatter plot with over 10k points. Commercial tools like Tableau are an option, but at the cost of some flexibility. Do you need to plot all 10k points? If the goal is to illustrate a trend I would aggregate the data to make it more usable. Otherwise, maybe it changed, but using canvas is a lot faster than SVGs